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Bassekou Kouyate

Malian musician (born 1966)

Summary

Malian musician (born 1966)

Field	Value
background	person
name	Bassekou Kouyate
image	Bassekou Kouyate photo.jpg
caption	Performing live in 2008
birth_date
instrument	ngoni
genre
occupation	Musician
years_active	1978–present
label	Outhere Records (Proper Music Distribution)

Bassekou Kouyate (born 1966) is a musician from Mali. His band is known as Ngoni ba.

Life and career

He was born into the Kouyate family in Garana, Barouéli Cercle, 60 kilometres from Ségou, in 1966. At the age of 12, he started playing the ngoni. In the late 1980s he moved to the capital, Bamako.

Kouyate's debut album, Segu Blue, was released internationally in 2007 by Outhere Records and distributed in the U.K. by Proper Music Distribution. The album was produced by Lucy Durán. He has also appeared on a number of albums by Toumani Diabaté and has performed in several European countries. In 2010, Kouyaté toured with Béla Fleck.

Kouyate's wife, Amy Sacko, is also a successful solo artist and sings lead in his band. His father, Mustapha Kouyate, was a ngoni player and his mother Yagaré Damba was a praise singer. Kouyate, together with Amy Sacko and Ngoni ba, appeared at The 2013 Proms.

Discography

Albums

Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba: Segu Blue (Outhere Records, 2007)
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba: I Speak Fula (Outhere Records, 2009)
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba: Jama Ko (Outhere Records, 2013)
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba: Ba Power (Glitterbeat Records, 2015)
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba: Miri (Outhere Records, 2019)
Bassekou Kouyate & Amy Sacko: Djudjon (One World Records, 2024)

Contributing artist

The Rough Guide to Desert Blues (World Music Network, 2010)

Filmography

2008: Throw Down Your Heart, by Sascha Paladino: Himself
2013: The Africa Express, by Renaud Barret and Florent de La Tullaye: Himself
2016: Easy Man, by Jasper Cremers and Dennis de Groot: Himself
2016: Mali Blues, by Lutz Gregor: Himself

Awards

2008 – BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music – Album of the Year & African Artist of the Year

References

Frank Bessem's Musiques d'Afrique: {{usurped
Fly Global Music, March 10, 2007: [http://www.flyglobalmusic.com/fly/archives/africamiddle_east_features/bassekou_kouyate.html Bassekou Kouyaté – Blue Like a River to a Desert] {{Webarchive. link. (2011-07-28)
Dacks, David. (March 2010). "Ngoni Hero Bassekou Kouyaté". Exclaim!.
[http://www.allmusic.com/artist/amy-sacko-mn0002176208 Allmusic.com entry on Amy Sacko]
(22 August 2013). "Prom 54: World Routes Prom". bbc.co.uk.
[https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/worldmusic/a4wm2008/winners.shtml BBC3 Awards for World Music winners 2008]

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